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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Remember Katie, the little girl with the Star Wars water bottle who's been unofficially adopted by every geek on the Internet? Well, in Katie's honor, tomorrow is Wear and Share Star Wars Day!

This is a day to rock your Star Wars clothing or accessories, and also to donate a Star Wars or other geeky toy to your local shelter or hospital. Cool, right?

Now, for this special occasion Jen has asked me, Number 1, to write a Star Wars themed post. What Jen doesn't realize (and what I'm not going to tell her), is that I've never seen Star Wars. Ever. But I've seen Spaceballs a whole bunch of times, so I figure this'll be no biggie.

Ok, so, the movie is set in space, "the final frontier", sometime in the future. Luke Skywalter is the pilot for the Star Ship Firefly.

("Oh I'm sorry, we don't make Star Wars cakes at this bakery, but we'll happily make you one with plenty of 'space'." [Yeah. Seriously.])

Skywalter has to save the beautiful Princess Leia from the evil grip of Dark Vader and his Terminators:

"We will destroy Hans Solo by playing checkers."

In order to get past all of the Cylons, Skywalter makes some friends with magical powers:

RD2D, CP3O, and Spider-Man.

RD2D, CP3O, and Spider-Man follow Luke to the planet Vogon. There they find a short psychic Muppet in a swamp:

Slimer.

Slimer tells Luke to "use the force," but Luke doesn't know what that means so he shoots him. (First.) Luke and his gang then go back to the Enterprise to fight Dark Vader and rescue Princess Leia. Again.

But the ship is now underwater, which makes it impossible to turn on their Life Savers.

Dark Vader thinks it's unfair that Luke brought friends to help him fight, so Vader calls a friend of his own:

Accio pixie power!!

But wait! Slimer pops up from the dead and casts lightning into Vader's helmet. Pew! Pew!Vader falls to the ocean floor, and Slimer says, "You killed my father; prepare to die!" Then he crosses the tachyon streams to open a wormhole which sends Vader back to Gozer.

Then Luke, Slimer, CP30, RD2D, Scully, Mulder, and Superman all run to rescue the beautiful Princess Leia a third time, and she proclaims her love for Luke:

And they all live together on the island until John Locke finds himself dead in the coffin.

Wow - that was head-spinning. Hilarious, but also head-spinning! I got the Star Wars, Star Trek, and Firefly references (along with a Harry Potter or two), but I think there were some I didn't get... Darn it!JeriCarey

I'd be scandalized if it weren't clear that only someone with extensive Star Wars knowledge could have written this. You are forgiven for having said you've never seen it. Besides, if that were true, Jen would have to shoot you (First!).

wv -- pinsplu: I got nothin', but it sounds funny when you say it aloud... pinsplu!

Oh, good post, Number One!! I lost count of the # of mock references and misidentifications (the Life Savers took me an embarrassing amount of time), but I hope you've got your Epcot-shedding umbrella with you today.

brilliant blending of plot lines and characters, there #1. I, too, have never seen Star Wars. *gasp* But I HAVE seen Spaceballs, Ghostbuster, the X-Files and I know who Spiderman is. So I was right with ya! :)

Oh, wow. As someone else said... the content entirely belies the idea that the author of this post has NEVER SEEN STAR WARS. Got to love the mish-mash of different geekery that came out of it, though. :D

As for the last cake... I was wondering what a simple panda love cake was doing in this post. And then I realized.

Wait--I thought you said you'd never seen Star Wars? How did you know the story so well then? There's no way you could have known about the connection between Tinkerbell and Darth Vader without seeing all those movies.

The Tinkerbell cake reminds me of strange requests kids give! The little girl probably couldn't choose between a Tink cake, or Vader, and why should she!I had a little boy once ask for a Lego Batman/Star Wars cake because he liked both - he was specific though, Batman had to fight Vader, and Joker had to fight Luke. Kids are awesome.

Also, this post is awesome. Beyond awesome, really! Number One, I think you are an over-achiever lol

So, Vader and Tink weren't the best drawn, but if you have a little girl who loves Tink and Vader, then the cake really isn't a wreck. But, if it's not what you ordered... That's a different story. Anyway, great post! I loved it!

Turns out that psychic swamp muppet was actually this bat: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/photogalleries/101207-top-ten-weird-new-animals-2010/#/papua-new-guinea-new-species-bat_27185_600x450.jpg

So fun! Firefly references always make me smile. And I may be able to explain that Tinkerbell/Vader cake. We had a Star Wars/Disney princesses/shark/Cinco de Mayo themed birthday party last year. Apparently parent sanity is not a good reason to choose only one birthday party theme at a time. And I couldn't come up with another reason.

Harry Potter, The Princess Bride AND LOST, all in one post!!! I thought I loved you before, but now, well now it's just something else entirely. I'm just not sure what to call it. Scrumdiddlyumptious works for now.

Sarah's Vader/Tinkerbell cake remind me of the cake I made when my son was 3. I had plastic Star Wars characters, and I placed them all on the Yellow Brick Road, with Emerald City in the background. It was *perfect* for him.

He just turned 18, and not too long ago, I was telling him how much I loved that cake, and how well it suited him, and he said, "Hmmm... it still would!"

so funny! I've been missing reading my cake wreck posts - even my husband mentioned we haven't checked in lately. This one rocks! Thanks for making me chuckle. I don't know what was funnier - tinkerbell with vader, the checkerboard or the addition of 'mulder' into the melee. i'm gonna follow now so I don't miss anymore adventures.

LOL, i love all the movie references in this post. i've never seen star wars, but all the movies are on my netflix list. i'll get to the them eventually. i have seen spaceballs, though (in fact, i just bought the dvd)

I had to look up a few references, turns out they were all Battlestar Galactica references, but other that that, I'm pretty proud of my innate geekiness. I absolutely loved this post. I think it's probably my favorite.

That was pretty much the most awesome and positively geeky post I've ever seen!!And I know you were intentionally messing up all the geek culture references, but one really bugged me. The planet is called Vogsphere, not Vogon. Y'all can't be disrespecting my beloved Douglas Adams.

Ha! Did anyone notice that on this picture http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/TPwZ3CKWz6I/AAAAAAAAPHM/91JEbwf5yU4/s400/sarah.ow.star%2Bwars.jpg the plastic at the bottom looks like a row of penis'? I did.

I'm guessing you saw the story on cnn.com about Katie and how you found her mom's blog about it and then blogged about it yourself. Nice going, Jen. :) You helped rescue one more child from being bullied and holding onto the stigma of feeling insecure and unwanted the rest of her life. Wish you could have been around when I was a kid.

Ok, I've lurked around here for a long time, but I finally felt compelled to comment. I was loving the beginning (girl geeks are AWESOME and everyone should know that), then grinning and snickering as I was reading. Then I got to 'You killed my father, prepare to die.' And I spit coffee all over my keyboard and choked, I was laughing so hard. Anyone who can use a PB quote in a SW post and make it work so damn well is a-ok in my geeky little book. Thanks for the post, and if I have to explain to my husband when the keyboard shorted out, I'm blaming you people. :)

Rebekah is so right. Only someone who KNOWS Star Wars would have added the (first!) and still been able to add that many geek references! Has anyone tried to count the unique references? I recall at least 8!

I just read Katie's article online and down the page..."Jen Yates"...wait, I KNOW Jen Yates!! It's Jen 'Cakewrecks' Yates! Just wanted to say, you made my throat lump up a bit with your bighearted efforts on Katie's behalf. Cyberbullies, old school. People are using the Internet for GOOD!

I've been reading since the beginning and this post probably made me laugh out loud the hardest. I got half way through & thought "the only thing that's missing is a Princess Bride reference" and then there it was!

I just read the article about Katie on CNN and was pleasantly surprised when I recognized your name. It was so weird to see my "friend" being quoted but I was not surprised to see you backing a young star wars lover! I love your blogs- keep up the good work!

Been here a while compulsively reading very occasional anon posts but had to post now under my usual moniker as I just read your article on Powder Room Graffiti and it sounds like you have the same stuff going on as me. They originally thought it was SVT but now I get so called 'panic attacks' but am never stressed out beforehand and they can last for hours too. Terrible aren't they - sometimes I wish went green or something just so people know something is up and that I'm not OK. So scary but liveable - I've lived with it for over 7 years now and once I cut out the triggers (caffeine and nicotine mostly) have been much much better. Thinking of you x

too funny!!! my husband is a huge star wars fan and is raising the youngest offspring in true star wars fashion! he pulled out some star wars toys we've had even before the boy was born!! were giving him some for xmas but he gave him a big obi one and darth vadar. and he L O V E D them!!! he kept saying, daddy, thank you for the koby one and dark vadar dolls!!! he's too cute. i'll be sure to pass on the star wars day info to both the dorks in my life!!!!!

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